> It’s actually exquisitely well-designed and painstaking crafted. It’s exactly the sort of app that the App Store ought to celebrate and highlight.

Exactly what I thought at some point. Apple, or whoever they outsource their app store reviews to, certainly try hard to beat that kind of idealism out of people. I let my developer subscription run out and moved on to make web apps only. Never looked back.

The concept of computers that for programs to run on them need to be submitted to a committee who decides if the users computer can run it or not felt like where the tides were going for a long time.

Post AI this starts to feel absurd and look if OpenAI release a hardware device with an App Store will the process be days to weeks of review or will it be vibe code it in 40 minutes hit publish and it’s available to every device in 2 minutes?

Yeah think software is thankfully going towards a world where bureaucracy isn’t respected.

The apple decides what the box or square in your hand can do era is over.

At first I wondered if this was caused by a language barrier caused by outsourcing app review somewhere where labor is as cheap as possible.

Then I read more and realized it was just stupidity.

Honestly, reading this, I kinda feel they have an AI integration in the review tool, which hallucinate and tell them it’s Astrology and employees at that level don’t want to go against that judgement

> The App Store is not a functioning system.

Sad to say this, but this has been known since forever.

> We understand that the app includes a live tarot reading feature

I don’t understand why tarot reading apps are banned, can someone enlighten me?

Reject this, but allow a billion spammy gambling scam apps pride of place in App Store searches. Gross.

I look forward to this app now being approved because getting a viral post on reddit/HN/Twitter is what passes for customer service in 2026.